Pastoral relativism is more dangerous because it throws persons into a lifestyle and decisions that may result in their being in a state of paralysis and acedia, eventually giving way to the inevitable: faint melancholy, darkness, and inner weariness ([paragraph] 80).

It involves both overvaluing and undervaluing, both self-aggrandizement and self-effacement, both pride and passivity, both arrogance and acedia, both doing wrong and failing to do right, both being more and being less than God intends for us.

13) Where Aquinas connects that "superficial dwelling" to acedia, Blumenberg detects a premonition of the modern eagerness to conquer nature: acedia suggests an eagerness to give up on knowing God and to address the problems of this life.

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